Intelligence is negatively associated with the number of functional somatic symptoms, 2009, Kingma et al

I would also add the question of "When did the researchers in the field of psychosomatic medicine stop beating their wife?"

If we're going to pass moral judgments as valid inquiries, might as well go with a classic.

 

But that just goes back to the original point, and that is, if you want to measure "Inability to resolve distress" or "difficulty dealing with conflicting emotions" or some such thing, then for heaven's sake use a test that at least attempts to measure that. Don't use IQ as some sort of weird loose proxy.

 

well, how often patients report that doctors have explained them. we really don't know what doctors really said. this seems a very inexact way to me to determine whether someone really has an actual diagnosis or not.

The study seems kind of meaningless. I mean, if people are impaired and having some cognitive issues at baseline they're likely to do worse on intelligence tests--I thinks someone mentioned that. Also people are less "intelligent" might easily have access to less intelligent doctors or demand less of their doctors and not makes sure they got explanations. pushy entitled people with good education might have better access to better health care and demand second opinions and specialist care and more diagnostic tests.